Contemporary (1945 -)
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New Media in Art
$29.95 Add to cartFollowing innovative ideas about representation and the free use of materials in cubism, futurism, and surrealism–particularly in the work of Duchamp–artists abandoned strict adherence to traditiona… [more below]
- Series: World of Art #0
- Author: Rush, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 250
- Publish Date: June 17 2005
- ISBN10: 0500203784
- Language: English
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Scenes of New York City: The Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection
$59.95 Read moreScenes of New York City celebrates the promised gift of 130 works from the Elie and Sarah Hirschfeld Collection to the New York Historical Society. The Hirschfeld promised gift is at once a collection… [more below]
- Author: Olson, Roberta J. M.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 336
- Publish Date: February 22 2022
- ISBN10: 1911282859
- Language: English
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Boom: Mad Money, Mega Dealers, and the Rise of Contemporary Art
$22.99 Add to cartThe meteoric rise of the largest unregulated financial market in the world — for contemporary art — is driven by a few passionate, guileful, and very hard-nosed dealers. They can make and break care… [more below]
- Author: Shnayerson, Michael
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 480
- Publish Date: September 08 2020
- ISBN10: 1541758722
- Language: English
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Modern Architecture A-Z
$100.00 Read moreExplore the A to Z of modern space. From Gio Ponti’s colored geometries to Zaha Hadid’s free-flowing futurism, this comprehensive overview features almost 300 profiles of architects, styles, movements… [more below]
- Author: Taschen
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: February 18 2022
- ISBN10: 383658316X
- Language: English
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Abstract Art
$20.00 Add to cartAbstraction shook Western art to its core. In the early part of the 20th century, it refuted the reign of clear, indisputable forms and confronted audiences instead with vivid visual poems devoid of c
- Series: Basic Art
- Author: Elger, Dietmar
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: February 02 2017
- ISBN10: 3836546787
- Language: English
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Carbondale After Dark And Other Stories: Expanded Edition
$19.95 Add to cartFrom panty raids to riots, “Carbondale After Dark” is a profusely illustrated anthology of history, essays and short stories that chronicles how a sleepy little college town in the Midwest became a hi
- Author: Koplowitz, H. B.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 168
- Publish Date: April 25 2018
- ISBN10: 0979139368
- Language: English
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Murakami: Ego
$75.00 Read moreA comprehensive volume–overseen by the artist himself–on one of the most renowned living artists today, Takashi Murakami. Takashi Murakami is celebrated the world over for his deft blurring of high … [more below]
- Author: Murakami, Takashi
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 268
- Publish Date: October 23 2012
- ISBN10: 0847838897
- Language: English
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The Secret Art of Dr. Seuss
$38.00 Add to cartThese fabulous, whimsical paintings, created for his own pleasure and never shown to the public, show Geisel (a.k.a. Dr. Seuss) in a whole new light. Depicting outlandish creatures in otherworldly set… [more below]
- Author: Geisel, Audrey
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 96
- Publish Date: October 03 1995
- ISBN10: 0679434488
- Language: English
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Katherine Bernhardt: Why Is a Mushroom Growing in My Shower?
$80.00 Add to cartDazzling and playful, Katherine Bernhardt’s paintings highlight her fascination with American pop vernacular, from Pokemon and the Pink Panther to Crocs and psilocybin mushrooms.
“Bernhardt has always- Author: Bernhardt, Katherine
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: December 05 2023
- ISBN10: 1644231123
- Language: English
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Robert Venturi: Complexity and Contradiction in Architecture
$35.00 Add to cartFirst published in 1966, and since translated into 16 languages, this remarkable book has become an essential document of architectural literature. A “gentle manifesto for a nonstraightforward archite
- Series: Museum of Modern Art Papers on Architecture
- Author: Venturi, Robert
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 136
- Publish Date: July 02, 2002
- ISBN10: 0870702823
- Language: English
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Protest!: A History of Social and Political Protest Graphics
$47.00 Add to cartAn authoritative, richly illustrated history of six centuries of global protest art
Throughout history, artists and citizens have turned to protest art as a means of demonstrating social and political- Author: McQuiston, Liz
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: October 29 2019
- ISBN10: 0691198330
- Language: English
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Case Study Houses. the Complete CSH Program 1945-1966
$100.00 Add to cartThe Case Study House program (1945-66) was an exceptional, innovative event in the history of American architecture and remains to this day unique. The program, which concentrated on the Los Angeles a
- Author: Smith, Elizabeth A. T.
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 440
- Publish Date: April 15 2009
- ISBN10: 3836510219
- Language: English
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Homes for Our Time. Contemporary Houses Around the World
$80.00 Add to cartAcross small cottages and lavish villas, beach houses and forest refuges, discover the world’s finest crop of new homes. This cutting-edge global digest features such talents as Shigeru Ban, MVRDV, an
- Author: Jodidio, Philip
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 456
- Publish Date: November 12 2018
- ISBN10: 383657117X
- Language: English
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A Big Important Art Book (Now with Women): Profiles of Unstoppable Female Artists–And Projects to Help You Become One
$28.00 Add to cartCelebrate 45 women artists, and gain inspiration for your own practice, with this beautiful exploration of contemporary creators from the founder of The Jealous Curator.
Walk into any museum, or ope- Author: Krysa, Danielle
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: October 02 2018
- ISBN10: 0762463791
- Language: English
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Seven Days in the Art World
$17.95 Add to cartSarah Thornton’s vivid ethnography–an international hit, now available in twenty translations–reveals the inner workings of the sophisticated subcultures that make up the contemporary art world. In
- Author: Thornton, Sarah
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 320
- Publish Date: November 01 2009
- ISBN10: 039333712X
- Language: English
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Georgia O’Keeffe, Photographer
$50.00 Read moreA groundbreaking introduction to the photographic work of an iconic modern artist
The pathbreaking artist Georgia O’Keeffe (1887-1986) is revered for her iconic paintings of flowers, skyscrapers, ani- Author: Volpe, Lisa
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 288
- Publish Date: November 16, 2021
- ISBN10: 0300257805
- Language: English
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The New York Tapes: Alan Solomon’s Interviews for Television, 1965-66
$39.95 Add to cartPreviously unpublished interviews with some of America’s leading postwar artists–including Frankenthaler, Johns, Oldenburg, Rauschenberg, Stella and Warhol–originally conducted for TV in the mid-’60
- Author: Solomon, Alan
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 672
- Publish Date: October 31 2023
- ISBN10: 0578635283
- Language: English
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From Bauhaus to Our House
$17.00 Add to cartAfter critiquing–and infuriating–the art world with The Painted Word, award-winning author Tom Wolfe shared his less than favorable thoughts about modern architecture in From Bauhaus to Our House.
- Author: Wolfe, Tom
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 128
- Publish Date: November 24 2009
- ISBN10: 0312429142
- Language: English
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Warhol on Basquiat. the Iconic Relationship Told in Andy Warhol’s Words and Pictures
$60.00 Add to cartAndy Warhol and Jean-Michel Basquiat’s complex relationship captivated the art world then and now. At a time when Warhol was already world famous and the elder statesman of New York cool, Basquiat was
- Author: Dayton Hermann, Michael
- Binding: Hardcover
- Page Count: 312
- Publish Date: May 24 2019
- ISBN10: 3836525232
- Language: English
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Copy Machine Manifestos: Artists Who Make Zines
$49.95 Add to cart‘Excellent.’ – The New Yorker
The first publication dedicated to artists’ zines in North America, a revelatory exploration of an unexamined but thriving aesthetic practice
Copy Machine Manifestos captur
- Author: Joseph, Branden W.
- Binding: Paperback
- Page Count: 448
- Publish Date: January 24 2024
- ISBN10: 1838667083
- Language: English
